Lists of Bests: russianchickita's "Interesting Books for Interesting Adults" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50162 A list of must-read books Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:03:44 GMT en-us 0 50 93 50 0 Penguin Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421387 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421387"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1595690298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anatole France</div> The American Dream and Zoo Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14081 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452278899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Albee</div> Islandia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934432 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934432"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1585678252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61520473_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Austin Tappan Wright</div> Candide (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219671 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1219671"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464870_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Voltaire</div> The Time Machine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/654946 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/654946"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> Scoop http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7164"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316926108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134658746_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evelyn Waugh</div> How I Became Stupid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3661 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3661"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142004952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Page</div> Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26990 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0877017883.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Bantock</div> Time's Arrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18795 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18795"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735720.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> Orlando: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4148"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/015670160X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179660 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179660"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1101859779_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> Cat's Cradle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10107"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533348X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The Time Traveler's Wife http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97728 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Audrey Niffenegger</div> Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71196 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71196"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375707352.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sharon Olds</div> 1984 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1185302"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451516753.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43083024_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> Dinotopia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1141330 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1141330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060530642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414341_.jpg" /></a></div> A Journey to the Center of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272391 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420926802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14713 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14713"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486298574.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</div> Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679431373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Rabelais</div> The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026005 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026005"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1417926813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank R. Stockton</div> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/98251 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/98251"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007204493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hunter S. Thompson</div> Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9825 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380813815.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45303967_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Moore</div> Catch 22. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823703 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823703"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3596125723.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Giver http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983407 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983407"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385732554.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> The Butcher Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10055 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10055"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385312377.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCabe</div> The Picture of Dorian Gray http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53664 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53664"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925288.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Wilde</div> Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775966 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gregory Maguire</div> Watership Down: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743277708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1110968 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank</div> The Neverending Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15326 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15326"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525457585.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ende</div> The Agony and the Ecstasy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334031 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334031"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099416271.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving Stone</div> Mythology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6974"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316341517.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Hamilton</div> The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060007761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn</div> Girl Who Would Be Russian and Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2157413 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willis Johnson</div> The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315393 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060555599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Trevor Corson</div> Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907225 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/907225"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044761X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Robert Maturin</div> Silas Crockett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2157438 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ellen Chase</div> Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1768217 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1768217"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451218590.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Albee</div> Go Ask Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/197928 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/197928"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416914633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> In Cold Blood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/073933364X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82984 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82984"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156717204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andy Warhol</div> One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3448"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141181222.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18939 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18939"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679751521.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berendt</div> Lilith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106746 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1106746"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1587159260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Macdonald</div> Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587201 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/587201"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142004820.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Armand Marie Leroi</div> On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961415"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283293.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Gone with the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/967922"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8611 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8611"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Iliad http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39427 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39427"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div>